Consultation & counselling sessions
As soon as the PGT is ready, you again come for a consultation with the geneticist and the fertility gynaecologist. The fertility gynaecologist prescribes a medically-assisted fertilisation (MAR) treatment.
Finally you see the fertility counsellor, who will go over the whole MAR treatment with you during a counselling session:
- Practical matters:
- Planning
- Start date
- How to make appointments and with whom
- The where and when of procedures
- How to communicate and with whom during your treatment
- What monitoring is there in the case of pregnancy
- …
- Medical matters:
- The course of your treatment
- What medication do you have to take (and how)
- Your preparation for egg retrieval and embryo transfer (and what happens after that?)
- …
- Administrative and financial matters:
- Registering as a patient at the UZ Brussel
- The cost of the treatment
- The conditions for reimbursement (for Belgian patients who are entitled to national health insurance)
- The contracts that you have to sign
- ...
Because of this focus on the practical matters it is best if the counselling session is held as soon as possible before the actual treatment takes place.